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In so many ways, Dobbin House is a very special place to have dinner. Historic, yes. Well decorated, yes. Great service, yes. We had salmon and pork tenderloins with baked sweet poratoes. Optional was a sauteed squash and mushroom medley that was also above par....More

Great atmosphere!! First come first serve so be prepared to wait. You get a pager so you can roam some. Well worth the wait. Good service great food and drink. Staff dressed in the attire of the 1700s. Pretty cool.

Dobbin House was one of our favorite dining experiences ever. The food was authentic to the time period, delicious, and beautifully presented. The staff are excellent, very hospitable, and in period dress. But the best part by far, is the house itself. It is beautiful...More

A great place to just stop and look! The tavern is in the basement and the food isn't too bad. Once done with you meal we were able to go see the spring and the walk-in fireplace as well as walk around the house. A...More

Our fist lunch for our history trip did not disappont. Crab soup and sandwiches. Beautiful day we ate in their outside venue. Each couole ordered something different. We all agreed it was very good. Service was good although they said they were short on staff...More

This is a must do! They have a curiosity shop that's super cute! The upstairs restaurant is more formal ,expensive and has a different menu than the tavern. The tavern is bursting with atmosphere! There is a tiny museum. The food is great, I've dined...More

Be sure you go to the fine dining side of this restaurant, they do have a regular tavern as well.
Parking is available, no valet.
Felt like 1875 with all the decorations and the dress of the wait staff
Probably not for children. This is...More

This place came highly recommended but we found it to be extremely crowded (table placement) which prevents conversation, with average food and rather high prices. It's a reasonable choice but not outstanding. Our waitress said 'she only had two hands' when an additional glass of...More

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Restaurant Menu

Alexander Dobbin Dining Room Menu

Springhouse Tavern Menu

Banquet Dinner

Banquet Luncheon

Student Group Menus

Luncheons Menu

Daily Fare

Compleat Suppers

Including, but not limited to, your choice of main courfe, served up with potato of the day.

A basket of afforted colonial breads paffed to your table fresh from our own bakery, served up with a galipot of butter.

2.5

Vegetables

Our fertile pennfylvania countryfide supplies the fineft of vegetables we search the markets for the beft and frefhest. Your servant will be happy to defcribe the seasonal favorite prepared for tonight.

Our Favorite Cocktails

Harvey's Bristol Cream Sherry

Dry Sack Sherry

Dubonnet

Taylor Dry Sherry

Taylor Cream Sherry

Champagne Cocktail

Gimlet

Marguerita

Rob Roy

Old Fashioned

Bloody Mary

Bacardi Cocktail

Daiquiri

Wine Spritzer

Pina Colada

Harvey Wallbanger

Singapore Sling

Planters Punch

Tom Collins

Screw Driver

Brandy Alexander

Rusty Nail

Stinger

Of Soups & C.

For a flavorful beginning!

M/P

Avacado Louis

Chilled backfin crabmeat difposed in a fanciful manner atop an avacado. Served with sauce louis, a creamy blend of herbs and lemon.

M/P

Appetizer of the Day

A generous offering difposed in a fanciful manner to dreff your table. Your servant will gladly defcribe the appetizer and its unique preparation.

6.95

Fruit Fancy

Our adams county is one of the leaders in fruit production in the united states. We are proud to provide the seafons beft fruit stuff fixed in the best manner of local receipts.

6.25

Baked King's Onion Soup

If you support the caufe of liberty from england as we do, and wish this soup to be re-named "washington's onion soup", so inform your waiter! Freshly made with beef and a variety of cheefes on top, baked in a 'quick' oven to a succulent tenderness, and served up hot and delicious in a tureen.

5.75

Porridge of the Day

Freshly homemade soup prepared by carefully boiling over coals with no smoke or dirt therein from stirring the fire. Served up steaming hot and heartily herb'd in a pipkin.

13.5

Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail

Steamed over a gill of small beer and selected seafonings. Served with a sauce of spicy persuasion.

Vegetarian Fare

On days when the hunt was not successful, mrs. Dobbin often prepared delicious suppers with fresh adams county vegetables. This evening's selections include:

A favorite among rev. Dobbin's houfe guefts. Vifitors come for miles to enjoy his treat. Includes a 5-6 oz. Lobfter tail and a 5 oz. Filet mignon-thick, tender, and delicious. It eats extremely well.

28.95

New York Colony Strip Steak, Carved to Order

Partake of rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the fineft of meats. Cooked to your choice of doneness and served up on a china plate with its own juices.

23.95

Hunters Chicken

Rev. Dobbin often afks for a tender, fresh bird perfectly prepared to a dobbin house specialty. Baked boneless breast of chicken topped with tomatoes, mushrooms and brown sauce.

29.95

Broiled Filet Mignon

Cooked according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up hot and on a china plate steeped in its own savory liquor.

29.95

Primal Rib of Beef (James')

Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. The larger portion goes to dobbin's favorite son for being the firft attorney to be admitted to our new county's bar.

25.95

Primal Rib of Beef (Smiths')

Melt in your mouth standing beef rib, cooked to your choice of doneness in a reflector oven with its own juice steeped therein. The regular portion goes to dobbin's stepfon who's in trouble becaufe he carved his initials (s.a) On the mantle in the parlor.

24.95

Veal Madeira

Tender efcallopes of veal sauteed on a clear brisk fire. Finished with a madeira scented sauce and penna. Mushrooms. A delicious cookery.

29.95

Roast Duck Adams County

President adams is proud of this tender 1/2 duckling roafted in our hearth oven with tart adams co. Aples and hard cyder. Served up juft right with a delicious cyder sauce seafoned delicately with citrus herbs. A true taste delight.

29.95

Trio of Lamb Chops

Three tender chops broiled to the strength of fire you prefer. Served up with peppered merlot sauce. Succulently delicious.

24.95

William Penn's Pork Tenderloin

Agreeably cut pork tenderloin, sufficiently broiled and made ready to difh with an outftanding rafpberry sauce.

Of Fish

Reverend dobbin often journeys to philadelphia for synod meetings. He delights in returning with sea animals that mrs. Dobbin loves to broil over a clear brifk fire for family and friends juft like you.

M/P

Broiled Lobster Tail

A splendid delicacy from farther away than we can imagine, tafting admirably well. A 12 oz. Tail with drawn butter.

25.95

Fine Fowl with Shrimps

In the 1800's the dobbin house was a station for the 'railroad' which served to efcort thousands of runaway slaves to freedom. Rev. Dobbin is againft slavery, and thus, all of the servants here tonight are merely indentured. They all recommend this boneless breast of chicken with tender shrimp sauteed over a clear brisk fire with a hint of garlic and white wine.

26.95

Gettystown Shrimp

A generous portion of tender shrimp topped with lump crabmeat and topped with his majefty's imperial sauce. Then baked in a slow oven and served up on a pewter plate juft right.

26.95

Maryland Colony Crabcakes

Rich with natural goodness, broiled and served up hot, containing more 'juft crabmeat' than you've ever seen.

29.95

Seafood Isabella

Truly worth coming miles for Rev. Dobbin's firft wife, ifabella, left him this secret family recipe. Made of fresh vegetables with a medley of seafoods in a wine sauce, then simmered over hot ember 'til tender. Dishes up on a bed of pasta. It answers well.

A favorite of this area, which rev. Dobbin now calls "gettiftown"! A generous portion of tafty offerings from the sea served up broiled 'til juft tender, as you wish. Orange roughy, fillet of salmon, maryland crabcake, marinated shrimp, deep sea scallops.

29.95

Drunken Scallops

Deep sea scallops sauteed with bacon and herbs, then drowned in chablis. Served directly to you in a succulent sauce.

M/P

Crabmeat a La Dobbin

Lump blue crabmeat at its very beft. Gently toffed in hot butter sauce until done to perfection. An agreeable dish.

26.95

Fresh Catch of the Day

A generous portion of a tender offering from local streams or diftant seas difposed in a fanciful manner to dreff your table. Your servant will gladly defcribe the catch and its unique preparation.

Of Health Drinking

Sparkling Cyder

A country drink locally preffed of suftenance from breakfaft to bedtime for women, children, farmers, & c. A gesture of hofpitality. Glass or bottle.

Coffee

Brewed Decaffinated

English Tea (For Loyalists)

Lemonade

Iced Tea

Sprite

Ginger Ale

Diet Coke

Coke

Milk or Ibc Root Beer

American Rebellion Teas

To drink these "liberty teas" is a sign of defiance of the crown and its proliferating taxes and duties.

Lemon Spice

Orange Spice

Constant Comment

Caffeine Free

Ask your servant to see our tea chest.

Peppermint Herbal

Cinnamon Apple Herbal

Of Homemade Confectionaries & C.

Desserts

The deliciousness of the homemade desserts set forth below will, by reference to our confectionaries pamphlet, more full appear.

Refreshing and frosty tumbler of draught beer or a flagon bottle of beer. Ask your servant for your favorite.

Rum Bellies Vengeance

The drink of the dobbin house. An absolutely incredible concoction of the light & dark rums, exotic liqueurs, & fruit juices, the potency of which mandates a limit of two (2) per customer. Truly, a genuine bargain.

A tender boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Then charcoal grilled and served up on a hearth baked roll with mayonnaise, lettuce & tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

13.5

Char-Grilled Steak Sandwich

A flavorful and tender portion of beef steak cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer, and served up open faced on hearth baked bread with sauteed onions & mushrooms. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

15.25

Spit Roasted Chicken

Half chicken dinner. You'll love our tender, fresh bird skewered to a spit and turned continuously in front of a clear brisk fire until it has a delicate brown and crisp outside, and is moist and tender inside. Basted on its own juices and sprinkled with a special blend of slightly spicy seasonings, this healthy meal is served up hot from the spit with a nice garden sallade, a baked potatoe and a hearth baked roll. Served after 5 p.m. Monday - friday and all day saturday and sunday.

9.5

Dobbin's Hot Beef Sandwich

Tender roast beef piled high on a hearth baked roll. Served up with its own juices for dipping. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

24.95

Maryland Colony Crabcakes

More just crabmeat than you've ever seen! Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll.

24.95

Char-Grilled Filet Mignon

A 6 0z filet grilled to your choice of doneness and served up in it's own juices. Served with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll.

29.95

Dobbin's Filet Mignon and Crabcake

A 6 oz. Filet grilled to your choice of doneness and a just crabmeat crabcake. Served with a tossed salad, baked potato and hearth baked roll.

16.5

Char-Grilled Marinated Chicken Breast

A tender & complete boneless breast of chicken layed to rest over night in a delicate wine & herb marinade. Served up with a tossed sallade, potato of the day and a hearth baked roll.

Market Price

Grilled Catch of the Day

A generous portion of tender fish steak grilled until done to perfection. Served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and hearth baked roll. Your servant will gladly describe today's selection.

23.95

Char-Grilled New York Strip Steak

Partake of rev. Dobbin's favorite, a flavorful and tender portion of beef steak, carved from the finest meats. Cook'd according to the strength of fire you prefer and served up with a tossed sallade, baked potato and a hearth baked roll.

13.5

Maryland Colony Crabcake Sandwich

More just crabmeat than you've ever seen. Served up hot on french bread with dijon balsamic mayonnaise. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

2.5

Vegetables

Our fertile pennsylvania countryside supplies the finest of vegetables. We search the markets for the best and freshest.

Meats & such piled almost as high as the stone walls of the dobbin house. But much straighter. Choice of hearth white, rye, whole wheat. Choice of two: smokehouse ham, roast beef, or turkey. Served up with mayonnaise, lettuce & tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

9.5

With Sharp Cheese9.95

Freshly Ground Dobbin's Hamburgers

Freshly ground hamburger char-grilled to the strength of fire you prefer and served up on a hearth baked roll with lettuce and tomato. Choice of potato sallade, cole sla, or potato chips.

Definitely make a reservation, and when you do, tell them it is for your anniversary. Specify you want the "bedroom" private location. This restaurant will accommodate your wishes. As a local, we used this very restaurant... More

Definitely make a reservation, and when you do, tell them it is for your anniversary. Specify you want the "bedroom" private location. This restaurant will accommodate your wishes. As a local, we used this very restaurant for our quiet wedding anniversary dinner. Enjoy!